Tips on Windows 8 and recent cloud issues


10 October 2012


This week's issue brought to you by: Actian

Putin and the Cloud

Jacqueline Vanacek, SAP VP, cloud evangelist, & U.S. Commissioner on the Federal and State-Local Cloud Commissions to transform government, blogs about her recent presentation in Europe on the joint Sand Hill/SAP study on cloud job potential worldwide.

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Windows 8 Transition

Not sure if your small or midsize business should be an early adopter or wait to transition to Windows 8? The VP of product management at Support.com discusses opportunities and risks.

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Cloud Server Security

What security issues do you need to consider when moving servers to public or hybrid clouds? CloudPassage discusses five top concerns and what to do about them.

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QA Team Integration

There are advantages to setting up a stand-alone QA team within a software development company instead of outsourcing the QA testing, but it is not an easy task. Avantica’s QA manager discusses how to analyze organizational and development processes to avoid challenges.

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New White Paper: Clarizen & WalkMe Case Study

Clarizen, a SaaS project management software company, had a challenge with converting free-trial users to paid users. Read the case study of how WalkMe helped them address this challenge and also achieve other benefits.

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If you’re interested in posting your software-related white papers on SandHill.com, contact Di Freeze at di@sandhill.com.

This Week's Sponsor: Actian

Actian Corporation enables organizations to transact, analyze and take action on big data. Actian is the first to unveil a cloud development platform for building Action Apps, lightweight consumer-style applications that automate actions triggered by real-time changes in data. Actian also incites action for 10,000 customers worldwide with Vectorwise, the world’s fastest and most cost-effective analytical database, and Ingres, the mission-critical OLTP database. Actian is headquartered in California with offices in New York, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Melbourne. Stay connected with Actian Corporation on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

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